The Technical University of Ko?ice was founded in 1952, but its roots must be sought much deeper in the past. As early as 1657 the Universitas Cassoviensis was established in Ko?ice, but technical education in Slovakia was only elevated to higher - education level in 1762, when the Austro-Hungarian monarch Maria Theresa established the Mining Academy in Banskб ?tiavnica. This provided education and promoted research activity in a group of scientific disciplines ranging from ore mining through to production and processing of metal materials.

The origins of technical higher education in Ko?ice itself reach back to 1937, when the M.R.?tefбnik State Technical College was established in the city. Teaching was supposed to start in the academic year 1938/39, but the pre-war events following the Vienna Arbitration caused the college to be moved first to Pre?ov, then to Martin and finally to Bratislava, where it remained and later formed the basic for the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.

The true birth of the Ko?ice Technical College came on 8th July 1952, when the then Czechoslovak Government issued Directive No.30/1952 Statutes setting up three faculties, namely the Faculties of Heavy Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy. These were joined in 1969 by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and in 1978 by the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

The important event of the renaming of the College into the Technical University of Ko?ice occurred on 13th February 1991. In 1992 the Faculty of Specialist Studies was set up in Pre?ov, which was later transformed in 1996 into todayґs Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies.

The year 1992 also saw the introduction of the Faculty of Economics, which meant that the University outgrew its original framework of purely technical disciplines, and it continued in this trend in 1998 with the founding of the present-day Faculty of Arts.

Today the TU of Ko?ice has nine faculties, around 12 000 full-time undergraduates and 700 post-graduate (doctoral) students. Almost 900 teachers work here, and the same number of research and administrative staff.

The TU of Ko?ice caters for a wide range of educational needs not only in the East-Slovakian region, but throughout Slovakia and Central Europe, as it is the only centre of education and research in this area in many specializations. We work in close co-operation with other universities and with industrial organizations throughout the region and the republic.